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Top Women in Agile!

December 21, 2011

I was so very happy when my dear friend and agile coach colleague, Kris Blake, let me know that I was listed in agilescout’s “Top Women in Agile Thought Leadership.”  What’s most exciting about this is the company I keep.  The “big hitters” are on the list – Esther Derby, Johanna Rothman, Deborah Hartmann Preuss, [...]

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Agile Coach Stories: You keep amazing me

November 9, 2011

“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”  ~ Bumper Sticker You are the ones doing it!  Tell those people who say it cannot be done to just stand back and watch.  Check out the latest agile coach stories about how coaches are using all the wonderful and sometimes [...]

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It’s hardly ever “them” — agile coaches, look to yourselves first

September 19, 2011

How do I motivate them? You know, they just sit there saying nothing.  When they do talk, it’s the same old ideas over and over.  How do I get them engaged? How do I get them to make good on their commitment? How do I deal with one that just doesn’t get agile and taints [...]

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More ACTION, Less TALK

April 26, 2011

When I co-teach the Coaching Agile Teams class, a waft of some of my one-hit wonders flit through my brain every so quickly before I catch myself and bring my attention back to what’s happening in the class and with the students. One of these wafts happened recently, when a student wrote down that something [...]

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Is trust earned or granted?

March 31, 2011

I’m recalling the first moments I trusted my daughter, then a toddler.  She certainly did nothing to earn my trust up to that point, yet I still granted her trust.  Albeit on a small basis…I trusted her to stay put while I ran to the next room to get something.  I trusted her to not [...]

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Change the dream of people you coach, change the dream of the world

February 28, 2011

This is my riff on an open letter to the first Co-Active Summit originally posted by Michael K. Spayd. The 400 leaders and coaches of the first Co-Active Summit in Marco Island, Florida, representing 22 countries throughout the world, make known the following Promise to our Co-Active colleagues, to friends and loved ones, to our communities, [...]

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Why the retrospective is not a lessons learned meeting

January 31, 2011

Often, when I introduce agile newcomers to the retrospective, they say, “Oh…this is the lessons learned meeting.  Right?”  Well, no.  It’s not.  Tongue-in-cheek, I often say, “It’s like lessons learned, but with a purpose.”  This gets eyebrows raised and people’s ears turned on.  Then they are ready to hear why this “meeting” is so different. [...]

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Using silent work techniques to get to astonishing results

November 29, 2010

Consider this… The word dialogue comes from the Greek dia, which means through, and logos, which means word or meaning. So dialogue is about letting meaning flow through our words. In a true dialogue, we hear each other’s words to gain new understanding and find shared meaning. What most of us do is discuss, which [...]

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The Coaching Agile Teams Class: So What? Now What?

October 31, 2010

So what? Now what? These are oft-heard questions as the Coaching Agile Teams class moves through two days of experiential learning, deep introspection and personal transformation. “Transformation into what?” you might ask.  ”Into a better, more aware, more tool-full and more presence-full agile coach,” I answer.  ”In short, a jump start on the transformation your [...]

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Got Agile Joy?

October 17, 2010

I think it is one of the solemn (and not often talked about) duties of the agile coach to notice, amplify and spread joy.  Yep, you heard it right.  Joy.   The good news?  Working agile gives us so many reasons to be joyful.  When I asked some random agilists walking the halls at the [...]

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I Am a Certified Scrum Coach and I Am Not Nice

September 25, 2010

Congratulate me.  I recently learned that I have been accepted as a Certified Scrum Coach (CSC).  I have been wanting to be among the ranks of the other CSCs for a while and it took me a long time to do a complete job with the CSC application (and the time delay had a bit [...]

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